Explore 4219 historical events from 1980–1989.
Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1…
Allen Ludden, American game show host (born 1917)
Olivério Mário de Oliveira Pinto was a Brazilian zoologist and physician.
Olivério Pinto, Brazilian zoologist and medical doctor (born 1896)
Anya Phillips was a Taiwanese fashion designer and the co-founder of the New York nightclub the Mudd Club. Phillips influenced the fashion, sound, and look of the New York-based no…
Anya Phillips, Chinese-American band manager (born 1955)
Don Figlozzi was an American animator and cartoonist. A veteran of Fleischer Studios and member of the National Cartoonists Society, he spent the first half of his career in animat…
Don Figlozzi, American illustrator and animator (born 1909)
Sir Thomas Playford was an Australian politician from the state of South Australia. He served as Premier of South Australia and leader of the Liberal and Country League (LCL) from …
Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia (born 1896)
General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars, and commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years…
Richard O'Connor, Indian-English general (born 1889)
Zerna Addas Sharp was an American educator and book editor who is best known as the creator of the Dick and Jane series of beginning readers for elementary school-aged children. Pu…
Zerna Sharp, American author and educator (born 1889)
Subhash Mukherjee was an Indian scientist and physician who created the world's second and India's first child using in-vitro fertilisation, Kanupriya Agarwal (Durga), who was born…
Subhash Mukherjee, Indian scientist and physician who created India's first, and the world's second, child using in-vitr
Felipe Cossío del Pomar was a Peruvian painter and left-wing political activist. While in exile from Peru he founded an art school in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico in 1938. The s…
Felipe Cossío del Pomar, Peruvian painter and political activist (born 1888)
Sir George Russell Drysdale, also known as Tass Drysdale, was an Australian artist. He won the prestigious Wynne Prize for Sofala in 1947, and represented Australia at the Venice B…
Russell Drysdale, English-Australian painter (born 1912)
Carlos de Oliveira, GOSE, was a Portuguese poet and novelist.
Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (born 1921)
Ross Martin was an American radio, voice, stage, film, and television actor. Martin was best known for portraying Artemus Gordon on the CBS Western series The Wild Wild West, which…
Ross Martin, American actor and director (born 1920)
Joseph McDonnell was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died during the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
Joe McDonnell, Irish Republican Army member, died on hunger strike (born 1951)
William Anthony Hallahan was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1920s and 1930s. Nicknamed "Wild Bill" because of his lack of control on the mound—…
Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (born 1902)
Terrance Stanley Fox was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, having had one leg amputated due to cancer, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to r…
Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (born 1958)
Edward Martin Hurson was an Irish Republican hunger striker and a Volunteer in the East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was the sixth to die durin…
Martin Hurson, Irish Republican, died on hunger strike (born 1956)
Frédéric Dorion was a Quebec politician and chief justice. He led a group of Independent MPs in the House of Commons of Canada who were opposed to the implementation of conscript…
Frédéric Dorion, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1898)
Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and hunger activist best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs. He achieved worldwide success in the 19…
Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)
Sonja Branting-Westerståhl was a Swedish lawyer and politician. She was one of the first female lawyers in Sweden and specialised in matrimonial law. A social democrat, she was act…
Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (born 1890)
Roger Doucet was a Canadian tenor best known for singing the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada", at televised games of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Alouettes, and Montreal Ex…
Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (born 1919)
Kostas Choumis was a Greek-Romanian football player who played as a striker. He is often regarded in Greece and Romania as one of the greatest strikers from the 1930s.
Kostas Choumis, Greek-Romanian footballer (born 1913)
Rosa A. González, RN, was a nurse, author, feminist and activist. She established various health clinics throughout Puerto Rico and was the founder of The Association of Registered…
Rosa A. González, Puerto Rican nurse, author, feminist, and activist (born 1889)
Stanley Francis Rother was an American Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981. He had worked as a missionary priest there since 1968. He held several p…
Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (born 1935)
Sydney Bernard Kyte was a British dance band leader and violinist who became known in the 1930s, when he led the resident band at The Piccadilly Hotel in London's West End. Kyte ma…
Sydney Kyte, British bandleader (born 1896)